THE HANDMAIDS TALE ATWOOD BIO

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MARGARET ATWOOD

  • born Ottowa, canada
  • 1961 published first book 
  • degrees harvard etc
  • mid 1980s wrote tht whilst in WEST BERLIN
  • PUBLISHED 1985 AND BECAME QUICK BETSTSELLER written after election of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher =period of conservative revival in west-fueld by organsied relig conservative critics who perceived excess of secual revolution in 60s and 70s 
  • height of relig right=increase fem fears -recent gains may be reversed
  • atwood wanted to explore conseunces of relig reveival-Gilead group…

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